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[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
I'm thinking about starting developing ROMs for our beloved G2x.. Actually, porting, since I can already manipulate a Stock G2x ROM and what not.

But in my case, I'm going to focus on porting over ROMs from mainly the Optimus 2x and the Atrix 4G (Motoblur).

Optimus 2x

It shouldn't be too hard to port over a Optimus 2x ROM simply because the two phones are almost exactly the same. I read a thread that said as long as we don't flash a Optimus baseband, we should be fine. I'm I wrong in that mentality?

Atrix 4G (Motoblur)

I'm thinking about using a Atrix 4G ROM as a base for a Motoblur port (I know it can be done since it's been done on the Nexus One and myTouch 4G). Since both phones have a Tegra 2 processor, it shouldnt be as difficult as porting from OMAP to Snapdragon but it will be very difficult overall.

I'm looking for input and pointers from Devs and stuff before I start officially working on it tomorrow. I will be posting periodical updates depending on my progress and what not.

If I'm not mistaken, this phone should be nearly impossible to brick unless I flash the wrong radio/baseband right? I know my old myTouch 4G had that rule. And I flashed the hell out of it with my test ROMs (even though I never officially released any) and it never bricked. I hope that's the case with the G2x. We shall find out soon enough though!

I will make a new thread on each ROM after I can get it to boot.

Updates

Ahh, finally everything is back in order. I ended up losing my previous progress which wasn't a lot, but was a good start.

It seems like 11.04 doesn't play well with Virtual box additions which are very important to me. Time to try 10.04!

My Ubuntu installation somehow isn't booting. And I'm taking this weekend off starting tomorrow to go camping. I'll try to get it up and running and work a few hours until midnight. Then continue on Monday.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] charlatan01:
Many thanks in advance, looking forward to the ROMs.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jumaaneface:
u will find the optimus 2x rom slightly annoying. getting it booting is easy though...more than easy
[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
Why do you say that?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Danishswag:
As far as I can remember, the reason it doesn't work isn't just the baseband, but also that it has different partitions. I think that's why there's a thread on how to restore the partitions on a bricked

G2x.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jriv:
Would love to see a stock optimus 2x rom

Sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
Ahh! Got ya!

I wonder if I can somehow modify the partitions?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Rootuser3.0:
not to be a ninja but I've read other threads were people were asking about porting over sense roms and alot of jags/tough guys were getting mad so same here applies to you if you want a moto blur or atrix rom buy that phone have a nice day
[T-Mobile LG G2x] death1246:
I will buy you a beer if you can get the gingerbread motoblur running on our G2x's...

Would love it actually no matter what anyone here says
[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
Maybe you misread my post.

I'm actually gonna try to port it over. I wasn't asking.

I was actually just asking for any input that could help towards the development.

So please, if your gonna be negative, just keep it to yourself. I don't want this thread to get off topic.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
Haha, thanks for the support! :)

I've got my Dev environment set up and everything ready for work. I think I'm gonna give priority to the Blur ROM first. Then depending on the progress, ill work on the Optimus.

And we'll see what happens with time.. school starts in like 18 days though :/

I also am one of the few who actually like Motoblur! Haha
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hukkguai:
I absolutely hate MotoBlur but would definitely like to see more ports and ROMs for the G2x community. Good luck with your future project! ;)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] wbales:
Never used Motoblur.......interested to try it out!

G1 rooted

G2x rooted

Toshiba Thrive stock
[T-Mobile LG G2x] CESAROX:
I'm looking forward to your work. The more ROMS the better! =^]

I'm also one of the few people that like Motoblur.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hecyepes:
Would love to see the motoblur on the g2x. Good luck bro
[T-Mobile LG G2x] emilianos:
Which rom is motoblur for the my touch 4g?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] llllllllllll:
The g2x def needs some new **** I'm getting bored...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] McFroger3:
You should so port over a Sidekick 4G ROM. I love that custom TW interface.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
PM me. I don't think were supposed to post outside links to another Dev forum...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] overground:
Moved to Q&A since this appears to be a feeler / survey thread. Feel free to post in development when you have something for users to flash. Good luck, and hope to see some nice work from you.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bmann_420:
Ha, my phone before this one was the cliq, with motoblur. Sadfully the only thing I remember is slowness, but of course that was from the phone. =) enhanced social networking would be a plus for a ton of people here though. I guess as long as it wouldn't bog down the phone to much. And yes, some completely different ideas from scratch are in need here.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Lightning Blue:
My experience with Motoblur on the Cliq 2 was so bad it sent me running for the G2x the first chance I got! Good luck though ;)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
Blur on Dualcore is a different story.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] flaronb6:
wpw dude good luck i cant wait see your work over time and honestly i was getting kinda bored of just stock roms

i think a variety is nice and maybe by any chance you could add a sensation port too :)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] crazythunder:
and what roms have you contributed to the community? someone comes along and say's they are going to port roms to the g2x,and that's your attitude? pretty piss poor attitude if you ask me. why the hell do you care what he wants to port? if you don't like it, don't flash it. is that too complicated for you? you've been here less than a year and that's the way you treat devs? they should all make you pay for their roms from this point forward.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] hmichaelkim:
How's this coming along? I think this is interesting and I want to see how it turns out
[T-Mobile LG G2x] moeahmad1995:
All I can say is thank you for starting to develop for this phone. All devs are important and needed for this phone. Haven't used motoblur since my backflip. It was slow but I'm sure it will be faster with this phone. Thanks again
[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
Sorry I haven't updated you guys for a while, but school had started August 22nd so all the free time basically went down the drain. I will try to keep on working on it but since I'm in school progress will be very slow. But I'm hoping for the best!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jboxer:
Why do you want to crap up the G2X with junk UIs that bog down the system and are FUGLY? If you want that stuff change carriers and buy an Atrix or get an O2X from expansys.com.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] C0dy:
Maybe some people like it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] enoch861:
Why do people buy a Mac just to end up running Windows on it when, clearly, buying a Windows machine is more sensible?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gypsy214:
i like your thinking man. i'm tired of all cm7 rom here!!!

same crap different name!

i'm willing to donate if your dreams comes true!
[EVO 4G General] marvinlh:
I know I've read somewhere that when a program uses too much memory that it is automatically killed, but at times I may have something downloading(for example, a Mod downloading in dolphin browser) if I navigate away from dolphin browser and come right back, the file that I was downloading would fail..is there a way to prevent this besides staying in dolphin browser until the download is complete?
[EVO 4G General] bkrodgers:
One thread is enough:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1199735
[EVO 4G General] jcxtreme13:
+1

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liable16:
Why not check these posts here before asking HOW TO ROOT

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838448&highlight=root+2.3.3

http://xdaforums.com/search.php?searchid=83765521

http://xdaforums.com/search.php?searchid=83877949
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skylar.sutton:
Bump back to the top... you fell off the front page.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sm0k3d 0uT:
Your search link doesn't work
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liable16:
yeah for some reason after a day the search link doesn't work new one added
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvinlh:
I know I've read somewhere that when a program uses too much memory that it is automatically killed, but at times I may have something downloading(for example, a Mod downloading in dolphin browser) if I navigate away from dolphin browser and come right back, the file that I was downloading would fail..is there a way to prevent this besides staying in dolphin browser until the download is complete?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bkrodgers:
What ROM are you using? The Sense 2.1/3.0 hybrids and full 3.0 ROMs may not leave much RAM left, especially if you've got a few things installed that run in the background as services. You can try to reduce what's running in the background, but the ROM itself doesn't leave a whole lot to play with. It may work well for what you're doing in the foreground, but you need more RAM headroom than Sense 2.1 or 3.0 leaves us on our phone if you're going to multitask much.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvinlh:
I am using Synergy RC2 and That may very well be the problem because I see it says I have little available room for system Rom, but is there a way around this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfrandy:
I am running Fresh 4.2.0.0 and have 120 MB free system and have the same problem. Researching it, I am led to understand that Gingerbread is more aggressive at killing background apps than Froyo was. Unfortunately, I haven't found or even heard of a fix for it yet. Very annoying when Sense has to reload when exiting other apps because it was shut down in the background.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
Not with that rom. That's the one downfall of that rom, it takes almost all of your memory.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trevoryour:
I have a rooted TF without Clockwork installed. Is there any way to install the fixed Netflix app without CWM?

1. I don't know how to get CWM installed at this point since I rooted it using a Universal root method that was essentiall one-click

2. My understanding is CWM does not allow future OTA updates and I certainly want to keep this up today at new versions get released.

Is there a way to get netflix working without CWM? If not can someone point me in the direction of the easiest method of getting CWM installed on a TF that is already rooted?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camilozano98:
I'm running cm7 nightly 64 on my ns4g, I have flashed the gapps with the latest gtalk builds yet i don't seem to have the gtalk app on my phone. Does anyone else seem to have this problem?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camilozano98:
Anyone have an idea?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Mister Hat:
Tried installing the 'Device check disabled' and the market netflix app both close on launch. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Beggars1923:
Won't work on xboarder's rom. Won't work on any 2.3.3 rom. You have to use CWM, EB, and some others. Check out the development section regarding this.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Mister Hat:
Alright thanks. Any chance you know how to get Skype video calling working?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] blestsol:
Interested in the same.
[HTC Sensation] evereste:
Am I wrong, but they all seem 'less' than spectacular, it's not like getting the buzz from the HD2 after winmobile. I guess I expeted better performance, experience, it's not there yet, but grateful the devs are trying...
[HTC Sensation] stoneyjonez:
We only got s-off a few days back, and you wanna come here and complain in the wrong damn section already?
[HTC Sensation] joemm:
1.wrong section

2. S-off has only been out a week

3. sell your sensation and go back to your HD2, problem solved.
[HTC Sensation] kitchencop:
Wow dude, no patients?
[HTC Sensation] amgarlin:
What a prick.
[HTC Sensation] Tweezydak1d:
There's always the option of you making that spectacular rom if your not happy with the options available
[HTC Sensation] Havoc1127:
You have no business owning a android phone.

Between my wife and kids we have had about 10 android phones between us and I have rooted them all. For S off just being released and i have already flashed 4 custom roms is pretty Damn impressive.
[HTC Sensation] MxFadzil92:
1 week is fast enough for us to be developing into a major performance of roms... like kernels new roms being updated quite frequently camera mods boot-animation all that just in a week... i guess it is more than enough items for you to test it out... developing stuff takes time... damn i wish i knew how to develop stuff... HAHAHA
[HTC Sensation] joeyklatzko:
Idk man I'm running Android Revolution and it's ****ing awesome. They've updated it twice in a week. What more do you want?
[HTC Sensation] MeatyCoins:
Hey man always give props to the devs making our device possible !
[HTC Sensation] Bxsteez:
Is it just me or did everyone in here completely miss the MODS earlier thread regarding flaming?

Should check it out

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1194327
[HTC Sensation] esincho:
u can post the link the rules while u at it so the op can learn where to post this bull
[HTC Sensation] Bxsteez:
They actually speak about asking questions in the dev section in that post as well. Even express how to handle a situation where someone does post a question in the dev section.
[HTC Sensation] cpittman:
Don't reply at all?
[HTC Sensation] Bxsteez:
You can reply all you want assuming there is no flaming. Just send a PM to the MOD they will move the thread and the creator gets an infraction, assuming i read the post correctly.
[HTC Sensation] cpittman:
i still say don't reply at all lol
[HTC Sensation] Flashmore:
I for one think you're wrong if you're asking? great thread though.
[HTC Sensation] evereste:
I think you droidskulls missed my point...S-off has been out a week and my point IS, that there's been no time to HONESTLY develop a better rom... Oh and I've probably owned more phones and probably have more kids than most... I stand by my post, the Sensation roms at the moment are not ready...just my opinion...and I do appreciate folk developing these things...
[HTC Sensation] evereste:
pfft you assume I haven't flashed every sensation rom available and btw I have 6 kids and 3 grandchildren. Read my post..all I said was, the roms are not spectacular not ready... simple as that...and true.

oh...android phones..nexus one and Nexus S, g2x mytouch 3, galaxy vibrant, g4 , multiple hd2, every iphone and now the best, the sensation... all my phones...
[HTC Sensation] evereste:
It's rubbish... ego driven and no meat...
[HTC Sensation] RaDeN305:
I think you may have set your expectations for ROM development a bit high. It's been a week. This phone will get some fantastic ROMs eventually but it takes time. A lot of devs were waiting on S-OFF before even buying the phone. With all the phones you have owned I would think you would know this by now. **** doesn't happen overnight.
[HTC Sensation] deliriousbb:
I completely agree. It takes time to build ROMs people want. Instead of throwing around your negative "opinions", just be patient or sell your phone and go get simpletons phone... Stop your whining! Show some love to the development community.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trevoryour:
Does anyone know how to update the mount points so that when I insert a microsd card it is mounted to the mnt/sdcard folder? I still would like to be able to use the internal storage though. Maybe it can be mounted someplace else.

I ask because I would like to backup my apps to the SD card using Titanium backup and Astro. Backing up my apps to the internal memory makes no sense. Especially when you are trying to move Angry Bird saved games between devices.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KnightCrusader:
I did the opposite when I was running the CM7 on the GTablet: all the ROMs mapped sdcard to the internal memory while CM7 had it the way you want it. I didn't need an SD card for the GTab, so suffice to say, I updated it to change it back so all my apps would work again.

Anyway, you need root, and all you have to do is find /etc/fstab and change the mount points to where ever you want them. On the GTab, I just switched emmc and sdcard around. This worked on Android 2.3, so I assume its the same for 3.x. I don't have my Transformer with me here at work or I'd look to make sure.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you make a system backup before you mess with it, cause you could mess up the file and then nothing will mount on start up, so proceed at your own risk.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifly4vamerica:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1122710

Last page has a script you can use or you can use the app method, I think it is towards the end of the 2nd page, its a 1.99 app but works fine and survives reboots

EDIT: Post 38 and 41
[HTC Sensation] Yorto:
How can I disable it, Every time I unlock the phone with the lock ring pull up, the entire screen spins around meaning I have to wait a second before being able to do anything. I have disabled animation but can't find anything anywhere about it !!!!!!!!
[HTC Sensation] reckoner_85:
I don't think you can.
[HTC Sensation] Yorto:
That's what I am thinking, might have to lock the phone whilst off the carousel, as that's the only time it doesn't spin around.
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
Choose another launcher ( I use ADW EX, the paid version is snappy and neato!) and then use Titanium Backup to freeze Sense. Whammo!

Matt
[HTC Sensation] Yorto:
I have never ventured onto a different launcher, waiting to catch up with a friend who swears by launchers. Will take things from there. But would be nice to disable this spinning....
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
Its pretty simple to do...Go to the market, DL ADW EX (paid version is a few bucks and well worth it). Set it as your default (it will ask you when you try to return to the homescreen. If you are rooted and have Titanium, look for Sense and freeze it. DONT remove it!

If you have decided to do that, post back and I will tell you how to set up ADW ex for speed.

Matt
[HTC Sensation] Yorto:
Thanks, Have no time to be doing anything else. Damn shift work. Will report back when I have some free time cheers ;)
[HTC Sensation] Yorto:
So do I....
[Atrix 4G General] rmarc71:
Just figured I'd share.

First. All I wanted was an xterm on webtop + ssh client. I don't care about much else, that was my only goal. I already have a webtop dock ($80, well worth it, IMNSHO).

First I had to jailbreak. You can use virtually any method...I did the "moto-fastboot" with preinstall.img. I'm pretty sure all the downloads do mostly the same thing.

Once you have root...you need to install the superuser dohickie (just as the doco's profess). I renamed su to mysu, though 'cause some applications make the determination on if you are "rooted" based solely on the setuid existence of su.

Once there, you can install jaunty armel versions of lxterminal and openssh-client (a simple google search will give you a location for those deb downloads which you can install using dpkg. 4.5.91 (at least mine) does not have lxterminal. There are a lot of errors, but they work fine. I tried apt-get..yadda, but the sources.list includes resources in the 10. range. Don't know WTF that's about.

You need to have an android terminal app installed. In that, you need to change %admin to NOPASSSWD using the method described: http dev.toreishi.net/2011/03/hacking-the-atrix-step-3/

Then create the %gconf.xml as described at the end of the article.

The middle part is where I got screwed initially (broke my webtop entirely, and had to start over from factory reset). It has you going to specific line numbers which are version specific (a version that I didn't have). The things to note is that you want to change the policy for awn. First, make a backup copy of domain_policy.conf. In 4.5.91 is line is 1331. And use VI for christ sake: vi +1331 /etc/tomoyo/domain_policy.conf

The lines look like:

Change the use_profile to 2

Then at the top of the file change the use_profile for lxterminal to 2.

(you made a backup, right)?

:wq!

Then reboot.

Happy xterm'ing.
[Atrix 4G General] redtricycle:
This was a little messy to follow, but I got the gist from reading your notes and the notes from dev.toreishi.net/2011/03/hacking-the-atrix-step-3
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
I have considered building another Linux Developers Edition but possibly using Ubuntu for the base distro. What would you like for the base distro? How about apps for making your development more productive? Just remember, afa apps, the iso will increase with added apps so it needs to be something you absolutely can't live with out. Also, I began to make my own dev distro after having to re-install all my stuff for compiling or customizing roms after changing pcs a couple of times and now think it would benefit most.
[Droid Incredible General] tcberg2010:
Debian base, xfce desktop environment(lightweight), include java6 jdk, eclipse, android SDK, and all prerequisites from aosp site. Gimp for theming.
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
I'll consider it. Currently I have Linux Mint gnome desktop with everything you mentioned to include and it works nicely.
[Droid Incredible General] lssanjose:
I like the above suggestions :)
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
I'm looking at linux mint xfce which is debian based and of course xfce ui.
[Droid Incredible General] tcberg2010:
I would recommend tossing this into /lib/udev/rules.d/.

Its the android rules file for the dinc.
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
I think I can manage that
[Droid Incredible General] mr.marcus:
currently running Debian gnome is xfce really that much better???
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
It's a lot less resource hungry. It uses far less ram which lends to more ram for your apps to run on. I'm trying to get linux mint xfce to work. So far I managed to install everything needed to compile and dev, but remastersys isn't fulling installing. I use remastersys to create a live cd image but since it won't install I may be trying another rout.
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
Ok, almost done with the new dev kit. It's Debian base with XFCE as the desktop. It was a real tuffy trying to get all the tools installed, but I did. Debian Squeeze and XFCE4 combo was a challenge. I built it, for the most part, from scratch. Just finishing up on customization.
[Droid Incredible General] tcberg2010:
CAN'T WAIT!!! (said like Bart Scott) lol
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
This is for adb, right?
[Droid Incredible General] tcberg2010:
Yea, it allows adb to recognize your phone. it's only for the Droid Incredible though. I think you could find a rules file for all phones on rootzwiki. Permissions need to be set chmod a+x.
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
I have something better. It recognizes all phones. It works great.
[Droid Incredible General] Treken:
Have some good news and bad news. Good news is that I finished the iso. Bad news is that it's actually larger in file size than the gnome dev kit. Hmmm...scratching my head on this one. I need to make it small enough to fit on a cd/pen drive. Don't give up just yet. Possibly considering lxde ontop of Debian.
[Droid Incredible General] drzoo2:
I have a buddy who just tackled a similar project. He didn't do a devkit but just wanted his desktop and software pre-installed. He decided instead of rolling his own distro he would use the Debian installer and rebuild the iso. You can get his script and info here....

"http:"//schlutech.com/2011/07/the-debian-install-process

I have under 8 posts so in order to get the url above I added some quotes around the http:.

See if any of his stuff can help you with your project.

Hope this helps you.

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